Theme: Mapping the Future of Undergraduate Management Education - The Student, Faculty and Employer Perspective

The objective of the 2012 ISBEFA, the 1st of the series, is to provide an interdisciplinary forum for presentations of our current state of knowledge, as well as in motivating new research and applications within the variety of disciplines related to business, economics and financial applications.

There is presently considerable interest in innovation and the question of how people in organisations can be more creative. Innovation is often imagined as being positive and arising from rational intervention. From a management perspective this often leads to focusing attention on planning,...